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InterviewDateTime

4/7/2010 16:30:00

InterviewLocation

New Orleans, LA

Venue

MobileBooth East

StorytellerA-FullName

Threefoot, Sam

Relationship_OfStorytellerA

step father

InterviewerA-FullName

Mattingly, Barbara

Relationship_OfInterviewerA

daughter

Facilitator Log

01:00 Sam was born in 1921 in Meridian, Mississippi. 03:40 Sam remembers playing war games as a child. 12:33 Sam remembers coming out of a World War I movie with his mother and hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor. 17:16 Sam went to medical school and also enlisted in the Army. 31:00 Sam left the Army on August 14, 1945.

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